DITA Support in Serna Free

The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is a popular XML-based architecture for authoring technical documentation.

DITA encourages writing of content as modular topics. Content is devided into small, self-contained topics that can be reused in different deliverables and single-sourced in a variety of ways. This approach is opposed to writing long "book-oriented" files such as Docbook. DITA topic-oriented approach emphasizes modularity and reuse of topics as concise units of information. Also, fragments of content within topics can be reused.

Important:

All editions of Serna support DITA. However, DITA usability tools (DITA dialogs available through the DITA menu and the DITA toolbar), which facilitate the insertion of common DITA constructs, and reference navigation are available in Serna Enterprise Edition only. Download a free trial of Serna Enterprise at http://www.syntext.com/downloads/serna/.

Figure 1. DITA document opened in Serna.



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